Sprinkling-pot valve.



T. B. WASHBURN.

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\ Specification of Letters Patent-. Application meay December s1, 1910. serial No. 600,324'.

To all whom it may concern:

Be, it known that I, THOMAS E. WASH- BURN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Coalinga, in the county of- Fresno and lState of California, have invented new. and

useful Improvements in Sprinkling-Pot Valves, of which the following is a specification.

. This invention relates to sprinkling pots of that type in which the spout is mounted at the bottom so that it is unnecessary to tilt the pot when sprinkling fiowers, floors The principal object of this invention is to provide an improved valve construction vfor devices of this character, that is comto manufacture,

paratively inexpensive easily manufactured, reliable and efficient in use.

With this' object in view and others, as will appear las the descript-ion proceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which willl be more fully described hereinafter and set forth with'particularity in the claim appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one embodiment of the invention, Figure l is a side view of the ot with p0rtions broken away to show tide details of construction. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the handle and valve-operating lever. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view of the valve.

Similar reference characters are employed to designate corresponding partsthroughout the views. p i

Referring to the drawing, designates the body of the pot, which may be of any approved construction and equipped at its top with a handle 2, there being a spout 3 under the bottom 4 and extending laterally from .the side of the pot Where a rose or sprinkling device 5 is provided. Thebottom of the pot is set upwardly from the bottom edges of the side walls so as to provide a chamber in which the spout is accommodated to not only protect the spout but to enable the pot to be set fiat onl a surface without the spout interfering. The inner end of the spoutterminates at a port 6 in the bottom 4 and through this port water passes to and through the spout. The port is capable of beingvclosed by a valve 7 which is connected with a stem or rod 8 that extends upwardly tov the handle 2, where the rod isv connected, at 8, vwith a thumb-actuated lever 9 mounted withinthe handle, "so that Patentedsept. 1o,l1`912.

by pressing on the lever the valve will be moved open so as to allow water to pass out of the spout, .the valve being normally closed by a spring.

Referring to F1g. 4, the valve 7"is composed of an upwardly-bowed or dished top plate l0 that rests on a metal disk` 11, and lmmediately underthis disk is another packing 12 which is adapted to seat in contact with the bottom 4 of the sprinkling' pot when the valve is'fclosed. Under the packing 12 is a leather disk 13 that is supported on a metal disk 14. These various parts of the valve are held together by the rod 8 passing centrally through all of them, and by being clamped between nuts 15 and 16 threaded on the rod, the nut-15 bearing against the top bearing against t e plate 14. In order to guide the valve, the top plate is provided with outwardly-extending or radial arms 17 that terminate in bifurcations 18 so as to slidably engage upstanding guides 19 fastened to the bottom 4 of the pot around the port or opening 6..

The handle 2 has its to bar 20 formed with upwardly-extending anges 21 so as to be of U-shaped cross section, and disposed in the chamber thus formed is the operating lever 9. Mounted in the handle is a U- shaped support or bearing 22 that has a fulcrum pin 23 for the lever '9, and coiled around this pin is a spring 24 which is ar- Y the valve can be opened to permit water to pass out of the spout. Y

l Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, is

A sprinklin pot having an outlet opening and space guide rods located near saidA opening, a valve rod having its lower endy threaded, a valve plug mounted upon said lower end, a flexible member mounted on late 10 and the nut 16 said lower end and against said plug, a metallic disk-engaging the lower side of the. plug, a metallic disk engagingy the flexible member, a nut threaded against the first metallic disk, a conical member mounted outer endsslidably engaging the guide rods on said rod and bearing at its .larger end and means for operating the valve rod. 10 I against the 'second metalhc disk, `a nut In testimony whereofl aix my signature threaded on said valve rod ,against the in presence of two witnesses.

5 smaller end of said conical memberto clamp y 1 THOMAS E. WASHBURN.

the exible'member against the valve lug, Witnesses: angular arms secured at their inner en to N. G. Wyman, the conical member .and having bifuroatedI A. HU'rzAH. 

